Monthly Archives: November 2015

While shopping last night I saw a wide variety of biscotti and I couldn’t get them out of my mind so I decided to make my own this morning. I chose the pumpkin spice flavour for a few reasons: I love it, it’s still the Fall season and American Thanksgiving is next week. All of those are valid reasons to bake pumpkin everything! I then drizzled some white chocolate because why the hell not!

A delicious and crunchy pumpkin biscotto drizzled with white chocolate with your afternoon tea will certainly help you get over today’s hump!

Last week my partner suggested I try making apple fritters but after looking into it, most fritters are stuffed batters which are then deep fried and I am not a deep fried kinda gal. With the Tim Horton’s apple fritter in mind (Apple cinnamon bread-like donut,) I decided to make a sweet dough similar to sticky buns and bake it instead of deep frying it. I first tried this in a cupcake pan which turned out looking very nice but I found the distribution of the apple filling was not satisfactory. I wanted the filling to be everywhere inside and so I decided to go with a classic swirl. To top it off, I made a vanilla bean glaze which really compliments the apple cinnamon bun.

Cupcake Shaped Apple Cinnamon Buns

Dough Ingredients:

1 cup water

1/4 cup skim milk powder

3/4 tsp salt

2 tbsp packed brown sugar

1 tbsp butter (room temperature)

3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 tsp instant yeast

Vanilla Bean Glaze

Filling:

1 cup of cane sugar

1/4 all-purpose flour

4 tbsp of cinnamon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1/8 tsp ground cloves

1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Vanilla Bean Glaze:

1 tbsp vanilla bean paste

1 1/2 cup icing sugar

3-4 tbsp water (consistent dependent)

Apple Cinnamon Buns

Add dough ingredients in order into the baking pan. Insert the pan into the oven chamber of your machine. Select Dough Cycle.

Core 2 Granny Smith apples and finely chop using a food processor.

Transfer the apples to a medium bowl and add the sugar, flour, vanilla and spices then blend.

Remove dough to a lightly floured board; cover with large bowl and let rest for 10-15 minutes.

Spread the dough into a large rectangle and spread the apple filling evenly.

Roll into jellyrole-style then cut into pieces and place into prepared pan, cut side up.

Cover and let rise for 30-45 minutes.

In a small bowl add the icing sugar, vanilla paste and water and blend until no clumps.

When the buns have doubled in size, sprinkle with cinnamon before baking at 375°F for 20-30 minutes.